On 3/24/06, Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This email is coming to you over 430 feet of cat5e cable, which is good > news, because it means that my "long-haul" ethernet link is working, at > least it appears to be. Does anyone know of any good software to test > and diagnose an ethernet network so I can be confident that I'm not > getting any dropped packets?
If you want to get to the deep physical stuff I don't know what will work, I use special devices like Fluke, but if you just want to see if packets are getting dropped then try out mtr, I used it to diagnose my Comcast issues. Basically it gives you statistics in a trace route fashion in real time with percentages etc. -- Thanks, Lance Grover /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
